Re: [PHP-DB] PHP and Access to DB2.

2001-04-30 Thread Phil Jackson
Check www.p2p.wrox.com...more later on this Phil J. Nicolas Machado wrote: Hy, somebody knows if exist a driver for database access to DB2/400, running on AS/400. Something like a module. Thanks. --- Este Mail NO contiene Virus. Checked by AVG anti-virus system

Re: [PHP-DB] Designing a database

2001-04-22 Thread Phil Jackson
else if it appears elsewhere - and don't change it's type! Phil J. - Original Message - From: "Richard Scott Crawford" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Phil Jackson" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2001 1:17 AM Subject: Re: [PHP-DB] Designing a datab

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP question needing info

2001-04-22 Thread Phil Jackson
Paul, You upload the script to your server and request the page in your browser, as you would any typical html page. The server retrieves the page, sees the php or php3 tag, knows to kick in the php interpreter, tries to parse the script within the various tags, if successfull, and returns to

Re: [PHP-DB] Designing a database

2001-04-22 Thread Phil Jackson
Well to start with, I would examine the nature of the data you want to store, it's datatype, size, ect. Follow the other reccommendations as to not repeating data across tables. I tend to use autonumber fields for keys quite often. Also, think about what data could go into "domain" tables

Re: [PHP-DB] PROBLEM IN INSERTING TEXT WITH SINGLE QUOTE

2001-04-22 Thread Phil Jackson
Try stripslashes(fieldname) to "unescape" those slashes when retieving from DB Phil J. Jennifer Arcino Demeterio wrote: Hello all, I am having a problem in inserting text with apostrophe to mysql database. When a user fills out a form field that includes an apostrophe ex. Jen's ,

Re: [PHP-DB] mysql -- Commercial DBs, When will I need to upgrade?

2001-04-22 Thread Phil Jackson
Some good advice already given, and I quite agree. MySQL is no light-weight - comparable to MS SQLServer and Oracle in performance. Also, running the DB on a dedicated DB server may buy some performance. If you must check out SQLServer, then http://www.sqlteam.com is a good place to start.

Re: [PHP-DB] Designing a database

2001-04-22 Thread Phil Jackson
Duke, The best thing is to get a good book on the subject. There is 1st normal form, 2nd normal formetc. (quite a few). I would think that 1st normal form should do (i.e. no repeating groups as in address1, address2...addressN) Look at how the data relates to each other. The nature of

Re: [PHP-DB] selecting from multiple tables on one database

2001-04-22 Thread Phil Jackson
Try using : SELECT table1.UserName , table1.City , table1.State , table2.Sex , table2.Age ,table3.SpouseAge FROM table1 , table2 , table3 WHERE table1.UserName = table2.UserName AND table1.UserName =

Re: [PHP-DB] uploaded images display

2001-04-22 Thread Phil Jackson
In the last part of a script that loads the image into the database: $qs = FetchImage.php3?nbr=.$lastone; echo center; echo image src='.$qs.'; Where $lastone is a reference to the image just inserted into the DB: $lastone = mysql_insert_id($someonnection); Notice that the img src is a php

Re: [PHP-DB] sessions and page has expired warning

2001-04-12 Thread Phil Jackson
Here, I think you may be over - using session variables a bit...have not used them in php, as I have version 3, which doesn't support them. However, by day I am an ASP developer, and article after article I read warns about session variables! They are great, but can hog memory, especially if

Re: [PHP-DB] Uploading file into database

2001-04-12 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi, ok, first of all make sure your form tag is like : form method="POST" name="ImageForm" action="UploadImage.php3" ENCTYPE="multipart/form-data" The ENCTYPE is important! Next, make sure you have a field like: input type="file" size="50" name="txtImage" type="file" is important! This will

Re: [PHP-DB] insert binary file into MSSQL

2001-04-06 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi, Check out http://www.zdnet.com/devhead/stories/articles/0,4413,2643888,00.html for a good workable example of using PHP/MySql to do this - the principles should be the same. Also, search www.asptoday.com for the word "blob" to find some good articles on the topic. Phil J. Marcel Liberda

Re: [PHP-DB] Oracle vs MS SQL vs MySQL

2001-04-04 Thread Phil Jackson
Brian, To echo your other replies, there is always a trade-off between cost, ease of mainenance, usability, and functionality. PHP seems to go quite hand-in-hand with MySQL, despite some limitations. I'd take a look at the MySQL site and see first if you can live with those limitations. Ive

Re: [PHP-DB] Varible insert

2001-04-04 Thread Phil Jackson
Hmmm...given that the form fields all had the same names - i.e. you were performing the same sql, you could use and include or "required" file that did all the DB work. Or - you could have a generic includr file function that you passed a connectstring and sqlstring to as variables Phil J.

Re: [PHP-DB] Validating forms

2001-04-02 Thread Phil Jackson
Julio, It is much more efficient to do that type of validation client-side, using Javascript. No sense in making another round trip to the server if not necessary. Here is a quicke example: if (document.autoform.txtVehicleNumber.value == ""){ document.autoform.txtVehicleNumber.focus()

Re: [PHP-DB] Search results

2001-04-01 Thread Phil Jackson
I've not seen the limit function, but it sounds quite uselfull. Whatever method, you could pass the first or last keys related to the current page and an indication as to whether you are going forwards or backwards - I suppose that in PHP it could all be done in one file, self-referential-like,

Re: [PHP-DB] send a html page into an email

2001-03-31 Thread Phil Jackson
I think you will have to send mime mail to send the page as an attachment. See http://www.wrox.com/Books/Book_down.asp?section=11_3isbn=1861002963subject=subject_id= There you can download some source code from the "Proffesional PHP" book as a zip file. There will be a "mime_mail.inc" and a

Re: [PHP-DB] count function?

2001-03-30 Thread Phil Jackson
What is retrieved if you do a Select Count(*) from myDb where condition = parameters? Seems your result set should contain this value... Phil J. DC wrote: Hi All I cant quite work out how to count the number of rows in my mysql db that match a certain critieria and the show that number

Re: [PHP-DB] How to eliminate bad fields from a mysql query?

2001-03-30 Thread Phil Jackson
If there are some fields that you absolutley require, or must be in a valid format, I'd use javascript to edit the form first - no reason to make a round trip to the server for something you can do server-side. **Or** - say the form is for selecting an automobile - make is required but color

[PHP-DB] MySql Connect question

2001-03-29 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi, If I were to try to connect to a MySQL DB from some scripting language, in the connection string what do I put in the "provider=" string for an ODBC connection? I'd like to try this from an ASP application using ADO, but need to know this. Before you boo and hiss - I've duplicated the

Re: [PHP-DB] variables

2001-03-29 Thread Phil Jackson
Dunno without looking at code, but try storing the value of $customer into a local variable when the script is invoked - something is wiping it clean. my thunks, Phil J. Scott Kalbach wrote: I am having a problem with losing a variables value. What I am doing is taking the value from a

Re: [PHP-DB] PHP on WIN32 with DB2 CLI

2001-03-29 Thread Phil Jackson
Chris - I think to use DB2's CLI interface, you need a compiled langauge, like some flavor of C++ or VB. I've seen some examples using the CLI interface, so my question is why on earth would you chose that over generic ODBC? That CLI is nasty-looking, pages of code versus what you can do in a

Re: [PHP-DB] $vars to JS in a linked js page.

2001-03-29 Thread Phil Jackson
I think your only choices are to put this value into either a database or if you are using php4 - to use a session varible - or use a cookie if you are trying to persist this value across multiple pages for multiple users...or pass as a querystring to the next page.. or as a hidden form variable

[PHP-DB] Inserting Image as Blob in MySql DB

2001-03-25 Thread Phil Jackson
Hi, Does anyone know the proper method for inserting an image(*.jpg or *.gif) into a MySql database blob field? I am recieving the file via an html form with the usual enctype for this and input type=file parameters. I can save it as just a regular file and then display it fine on the page, but

Re: [PHP-DB] Help?

2001-03-25 Thread Phil Jackson
Perhaps the quote marks within quote marks? PHP,as is javascript, very particular.. Try: echo "Name: $row['user_id'].'br\n"; or some such. or echo "Name".$row[user_id]."br\n"; It's the quote marks within that are playing havoc.. Phil J. Chris Hall wrote: I keep getting this error on a little